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Sophia

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Halloween
Oct 16^th, 2025 at 11:32am

I walk into shopping centres and it’s in our faces… bigger than ever!

What’s the purpose of this silliness? It’s goulash evil representation.
The only good thing out of it is the pumpkin! Hopefully get kids to eat more pumpkin at the least.
Who can afford to waste money these days with the expense of living and bills and rising costs?
It’s getting close to Christmas too, and then there’s birthdays!
Who started this Halloween nonsense?
Sending kids out at night to hype up on lollies! Roll Eyes

Look at pic below at what I faced yesterday walking into shopping centre! Talk about elaborate!
The horse moved, and the headless guy raised his head up and down.

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Re: Halloween
Reply #1 - Oct 16^th, 2025 at 1:45pm

Great topic !

I left Australia when very young and it used to be “ the lucky land “.

So much has changed on my return and sadly not for the better.

Halloween seems a very new celebration in today’s Australia and I think it’s little more than a chance to celebrate a culture that isn’t ours and you can rest assured many more advanced nations don’t celebrate it and really have no interest in the American custom.”

It’s just big business shifting product and dumping excess stock on from the American and Canada onto Australian markets.

It’s aim at children and well promoted so it’s difficult as a parent to ignore.

It’s just environmental terrible rubbish from china that we need to buy because it’s an American .

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Jovial Monk Gold Member Offline Dogs not cats! Posts: 50648 Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #2 - Oct 17^th, 2025 at 6:45am Two years ago looked out my window and saw some kids come to ask for lollies. I just shook my head and they left without knocking. Stupid custom!
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Sir Eoin O Fada Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3111 New England, NSW Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #3 - Oct 21^st, 2025 at 8:48pm Actually the custom is mainly Scot’s and like Christmas, Easter, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day has been commercialised. Invariably the Hot Cross Buns at Easter are cold.
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Marla Gold Member Offline Run for me, MAGA bunny. Posts: 14426 Colorado Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #4 - Oct 21^st, 2025 at 9:53pm Do Australians even celebrate Halloween? Or do they just complain about it like they do with Thanksgiving?
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Re: Halloween
Reply #5 - Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 8:34am

Marla wrote on Oct 21^st, 2025 at 9:53pm:

Do Australians even celebrate Halloween? Or do they just complain about it like they do with Thanksgiving?

Not really, Marla.

But, the $2 shops, BigW, KMart and a few others celebrate the opportunity to sell a lot of useless Halloween themed rubbish that no one really wants or needs.

We've also started doing Black Friday here as well and to a lesser extent, Cyber Monday. Anything goes as far the shops trying and make a quick buck these days.

And, Black Friday in Australia must be the longest Friday ever - it usually lasts until just before Christmas. Roll Eyes

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Daves2017 Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2546 Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #6 - Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 8:43am Marla wrote on Oct 21^st, 2025 at 9:53pm: Do Australians even celebrate Halloween? Or do they just complain about it like they do with Thanksgiving? We just complain about Halloween. Thanksgiving isn’t even spoken about. It’s that low on the Australian scale.
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Re: Halloween
Reply #7 - Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 8:51am

I have also seen Christmas trees in Big W this week!. Roll Eyes

...But as far as Halloween goes, the bastardised, commercial mockery we have imported from the US is nothing like the Halloween of Celtic tradition. As a child in Scotland my wife used to go 'guising'. This was dressing up and going door to door, but to get a treat you had to sing a song, recite a poem or do a dance to earn it. There was no demanding with the threat of a prank being played. The treat was often a piece of fruit or a biscuit or cake rather than lollies.

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Carl D Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10385 Rivervale, Perth Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #8 - Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 8:59am Belgarion wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 8:51am: I have also seen Christmas trees in Big W this week!. I saw Christmas trees and cards, toy Santas, etc. in BigW at Belmont Forum here about 4 weeks ago. They had them out even before the Halloween rubbish.
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 21367 Gordon Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #9 - Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 9:19am People without young kids hate Halloween
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 146675 Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #10 - Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 3:35pm Jovial Monk wrote on Oct 17^th, 2025 at 6:45am: Two years ago looked out my window and saw some kids come to ask for lollies. I just shook my head and they left without knocking. Stupid custom! I'm sure it's a big hit at the White (Supremacist) House. Surely Trump is used to handing out candy to kids.
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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 53150 Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #11 - Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 6:02pm Just shows that Australians can't come up with their own original stuff. Nothing against Halloween, but it's like importing those bitter American Navel oranges.
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Re: Halloween
Reply #12 - Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 6:19pm

Carl D wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 8:34am:

Marla wrote on Oct 21^st, 2025 at 9:53pm:

Do Australians even celebrate Halloween? Or do they just complain about it like they do with Thanksgiving?

Not really, Marla.

But, the $2 shops, BigW, KMart and a few others celebrate the opportunity to sell a lot of useless Halloween themed rubbish that no one really wants or needs.

We've also started doing Black Friday here as well and to a lesser extent, Cyber Monday. Anything goes as far the shops trying and make a quick buck these days.

And, Black Friday in Australia must be the longest Friday ever - it usually lasts until just before Christmas. Roll Eyes

Our shops are full of rip off sales like

up to

70% off.

And you don't see the up to on the sign.
The only thing that is 70% off is some plastic junk worth nothing anyway.

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Marla Gold Member Offline Run for me, MAGA bunny. Posts: 14426 Colorado Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #13 - Oct 23^rd, 2025 at 2:06am Carl D wrote on Oct 22^nd, 2025 at 8:34am: But, the $2 shops, BigW, KMart and a few others celebrate the opportunity to sell a lot of useless Halloween themed rubbish that no one really wants or needs. Whoa, whoa, whoa! There are still KMarts in Australia?
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Jasin Gold Member Online Posts: 53150 Gender:	Re: Halloween Reply #14 - Oct 23^rd, 2025 at 4:12am Halloween is when American Lefties put on their finest evening wear.
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